Sierra Regional Ski for Light

Fall is in the air!  It is time to start thinking of winter ski events!    Our annual Three Day Winter Event will be February 20th-22nd.  Let’s make it the best  event ever. Mark your calendars!  It will be held at Tahoe Donner Adventure Center.

The SRSFL 2026 Hiking Weekend will be Saturday, August 22nd-Monday, August 24, 2026.  It will be held in and near Truckee.  Application are available on our VIP Hiker and Guide and Volunteer Hiker Pages!  Sign up now!

Despite Mother Nature working on melting all the snow, we have had a great time!  With 40 visually impaired persons, guides and volunteers, it is our biggest group in a while!  Tahoe Donner has done a fantastic job of keeping  many trails open and treating us like royalty!

Fall is in the air!  It is time to start thinking of winter ski events!  A possible Day Trip and new Guide Training  is set for Saturday, February 21st.  Our annual Three Day Event will be March 14th -16th.  Let’s make it the best  event ever. Mark your calendars!  It will be held at Tahoe Donner Adventure Center.  Our applications for winter events are  available now. Go to the Skier Page to access the VIP Skier Application and information. You can also go to the Guide or Volunteers pages to access the Guide and Volunteer Application.  See you on the snow!

Our annual 2025 Newsletter is available!  It is linked below.  Enjoy!
SRSFL 2025 Newsletter

Although our group was small it was a great weekend!  The weather was perfect.  The food was good and everyone had a great time!  Please send me any pictures you may have to add to this post.

After a short illness, Sierra Regional Ski for Light has lost one of its pillars.  Vicki was hospitalized on Friday May 2^nd with multiple strokes and a heart attack.  She lost her battle for life on Monday, May 12^th.  She was 71 years old.  Her involvement with SRSFL goes back more than 25 years.  She served the group in many ways including more than one term as Board President. For many years we worked together to train new guides.  It will be difficult to train new guides without her!  She was a brilliant teacher, a peacemaker, a counselor and a musician with an amazing voice.  Vicki met the many challenges she faced in life with optimistic hopefulness.

Perhaps the best way to describe Vicki is with her own words taken from her Spirit Alive website, “Now who am I really? I love the outdoors; hiking, cross country skiing, climbing mountains and taking long walks with my guide dog. I’m a radio news junky; I love to sing and play guitar; I’ll talk for hours over tea, coffee or wine; I love being stirred to the depths of my soul by good books, movies and music; and I love dark chocolate. I am a happily married, hopelessly independent, flaming idealist who believes there is still hope for this planet.”

It is hard to imagine SRSFL without her. You will be greatly missed dear friend!

Edie Lott, SRSFL Board President

Join us for another fun filled SRSFL hiking weekend in the Truckee area:  Saturday, June 14th- Monday June 16, 2025. Make sure you mark your calendars and sign up early.  We will be staying at the Best Western Hotel.  A Sacramento area day hike is also planned at the Cosumnes River Preserve walk on Saturday, May 10th.   If you are planning to attend this day hike, make sure your application is in by May 1st. Applications for  VIP Hikers is found here:  VIP Hiker Application   Applications for guides and volunteers is found here:  Guide and Volunteer Application.    Get your applications in now!

We just finished a great 3 Day Event with Sierra Regional Ski for Light. Our guides, volunteers and blind skiers were amazing! The young man in this video is blind and had never even touched snow before our event! Watching him ski with ease made all the hard work organizing for the weekend more than worth it!  Watch this short video to the end.

Fall is in the air!  It is time to start thinking of winter ski events!  Our Day Trip and new Guide Training  set for Saturday, February 8th is cancelled. Our annual Three Day Event will be March 8th -10th.  Let’s make it the best  event ever. Mark your calendars!  It will be held at Tahoe Donner Adventure Center.  Go to the Skier Page to access the Skier Application and information. You can also go to the Guide or Volunteers pages to access the Guide and Volunteer Application.